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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,256, dated February 7, 1882.

Application filed December 12, 18813 (Xo model.)

To ali whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH G. BARKER, of Watertown, in the county ot' Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication.

My invention is designed more especially for application to woolen shirts-such as are worn by bicyelers and other Sportsmen-and is an improvement upon the shirt nowin very general useamongsuch men, and which is made to open in the center of its front, and is provided uponeach side of said opening with a series of eyelet-holes, through which alacing-cord of brightcolored silk is run and tied in a bow-knot at the throat, said shirt also being provided with a pair of iiaps upon the inner side of said front, extending from the lower end of the opening to a point some distance below the collar of the shirt, which iiaps are buttoned together before the shirt islaced up. This makes a very pretty shirt-front, and it is in great demand among the class ofnien who wear woolen shirts; but there is a serious objection to its use inthe fact that a great deal of time is Wasted in putting on and taking off the shirt, due to the fact that the lacing-cord has to be withdrawn from the eyelets for the greater part 0f the length ot' the opening in the front before the shirt can be taken off, and after the shirt is put on again the lacing-cord has to be passed through all ofthe eyelets from which it had previously been removed.

To o bviate this objection and produce a shirt having all the good features of the old shirt, and that can be put on or taken ol't as readily as an ordinary shirt, is the object of my present invention; and it consists, first, in a shirt provided with a double front, arranged to be buttoned at one side ot' the centerof said front, and with a lacing-cord run through two series of eyelets, one upon each side of the central vertical line of said front, whereby the shirt has the appearance of havingits front opening laced up, while at the same time the shirt may be put on or taken ofi' without materially disturbing the lacing-cord.

It further consists in the application to a shirt of ordinary construction of a supplementary fron t, secured to said shirt at one side Iplaits at equal distances from each other and from the edge of said plait, and a lacing-cord passed alternately through an eyelet-hole in one plait and then through an eyelet-hole in the other plait or fold, so as to lace said plaits together, as will be described.

It further consists in the combination, in a shirt, of'a supplementary front permanently secured to the shirt-body along one of its vertical edges and along its bottom edge by sewing or otherwise, and detachably secured to said body along its other vertical edge bybuttons and button-holes or other separable fastenings, a series of eyeletholes upon each side of and parallel with the vertical center line of said front, an eyelet formed in each end of the collar or collar-baud, and a lacing-cord run through vthe eyelet-holes in said front, alternately from one series to the other, from the bottom to the top, and having one of its ends passed through one of the eyelet-holes in the collar and the other end through the eyelethole in the other end of the collar or collarband, and then tied in a bow-knot, as will be further described.

Figure l ot' the drawings is an elevation of a woolen shi-rt now in general use with the front laced up, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same shirt with the front opening partly unlaced and the upper portionof the front turned back to expose the buttons beneath the lacing. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a shirt-front embodying my invention. Fig. f t is an elevation ofthe same shirt with the front unbuttoned and its upper portion turned back; and Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the shirt-front, and showing a portion of same in elevation.

In Figs. l and 2 is represented the shirt now in common use by sportsmen and bicyclers, in

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which A is the body of the shirt, having an opening or slit, a, in the center of its front, upon either side of which is a row of eyeletholes, b, through which is passed the lacingcord c, as shown in Fig.

B is the collar, secured to the body in the usual manner, and having in each end thereof, near its junction with the body, an eyelet-hole, d, through which the lacing-cord c is passed and then tied in a bow-knot, as shown in Fig.1.

To the inside of the body A and upon each side of the slit a is secured a flap, C, so arranged that one of said flaps shall overlap the other, so that they may be secured together by the buttons c e and suitable buttonfholes.

In Figs. and 4 the body A and collarB are cut and secured together in the same manner as the saine parts in Figs. l and 2; but instead ot' applying the flaps C C (shown in Fig. 2) to the inside of the body and lacing together the two sides of the slit a, formed in the front thereof, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a supplementary front, D, is permanently secured to the body A of the shirt, along the vertical edgef, the bottom edge, g, and a small part of the lower portion of the vertical edge h, by one or more rows or lines ot'stitching, fi. The remaining portion of the edge hof said front is supplied with a fly,j, in which are formed button-holes k k, by means of which and the buttons l Z Zand button-hole m, which is made through the front D, said edge 7L ot the front D is secured to the body of the shirt, the body ofthe shirt upon opposite sides ofthe slit a meeting, or nearly meeting', behind the front D, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5.

The front D is provided with two folds or plaits, n and n',eXtendingtrom the top of said front to a point near its bottom, the free or movable edges ot' which are toward and parallel with each other, as shown in Fig. 3. In each of these folds are formed a row or series of eyelet-holes, 0 o, through which the colored silk cord p is laced from the bottom upward. one end of the cord p being tinally passed through an eyelet-hole, q, 'formed in one end of the collar or its band, and the other end of said cord being passed in like manner through a similar eyclet-hole, q', formed in the other end of the collar or collar-band, and the two ends ofthe cord being tied in a bow-knot, as shown in Fig. 3.

The dotted lilies o o represent lines of ornamental stitching in bright-colored silk corresponding in color with the cord 1i.

It will be seen that to remove the shirt when upon the person it is only necessary to untie the lacing-cord, remove the same from the sin; gle eyelet-hole q, and unbutton the buttonsl l l, as shown in Fig. 4, and when the shirt is placed upon the person it is only necessary to button-the three buttons 1,/pass the cord p through the eyelet-hole q, and tie the cord to complete the toilet, so far, at least, asthe shirt is concerned, which is considered a very important advantage over the shirt represented in Figs. l and 2.which requires the removal of the cord from nearly all of the eyelet-holes to permit the removal of the shirt and the insertion ofthe cord endwise through nearly all ofthe eyelets every time the shirt is put on.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot' the United States, is-

1. A shirt provided with a double or supplementary front, having a lacing cord run through two rows or series of eyelet holesv arranged upon each sidel of the central vertical line of said front, and detachably secured to the bodyv of the shirt along one of its vertical edges by buttons and button-holes or other separable fastenings, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a shirtof ordinary plain construction, a supplementary 'ront permanently secured along its bottom and one vertical edge to the body ot' the shirt and de' tachably secured along its other vertical edge by buttons and button-holes or other separable fastenings to said body, a pair ot' folds or plaits in the center of said front and extending from its top to a point near its bottom, a series ot' eyelet-holes in each of said plaits, and a lacingcord run through said eyelet-holes, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3.'In combination with a shirt ot' ordinary plain construction, the supplementary front D, provided with the folds or plaits n and n', and secured along one ot' its vertical edges to the body of the shirt by buttons and button-holes or other separable fastenings, lthe two series of cyclet-holes o o, formed in the folds n and n', the two eyelet-holes q and q', formed in the opposite ends of the collar or collar-band, and the lacing-cord p, all arranged and adapted to operate substantially as described.

Executed at Boston, Massachusetts, thislOth day of December, A. D. 1881.

JOSEPH G. BARKER.

Witnesses:

E. A. H EMMENWAY, WALTER. E. LOMBARD.

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